Mulad: I had to fiddle with backup
solutions
twice lately. I first thought using amanda would be perfect,
but
it turned out to be overkill, as in one case only one
machine had to be backed up, in the other case, 2 redundant
servers. We use amanda at our student house, with ~ 15
machines, and it is just fine, but for small networks, it is
too complicated. I then got the hostdump.sh script from
somewhere on the net, patched a few errors it had, but got
disappointed by it, as it is tremendously long and
complicated and ugly. However, it writes a label file using
tar as the first file on the tape. It also writes an index
file last. I used the same idea, in one case using the label
file only to ask the user if the tape is the correct one, in
the other case to parse the file list, and play them back
correctly. In one case (the redundant case), I use a simple
spool directory, where Tar files get periodically written
to, and backed up to tape once a day. A full dump is done
each weekend. I also write small ksh scripts so lusers could
back up data without destroying the oracle databases and
stuff. Hope that helps, I could mail you some scripts, but I
don't want to release them, they are just too ludicrous.
Sorry for my bad english.